FrameThrower · Actors · Ellen Wong
Ellen Wong
2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2010–2016
Born 31 May 1985 · Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Ellen Wong is a prominent Canadian actress best known for playing Knives Chau in the cult classic film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and its animated spin-off Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. She is of Cambodian and Chinese descent, she has built a versatile career across both film and television.
She is easily recognized for her standout television roles, including the whip-smart and loyal best friend Jill "Mouse" Chen in The CW's The Carrie Diaries, and the pop-culture-obsessed wrestler Jenny Chey ("Fortune Cookie") in the hit Netflix series GLOW. An accomplished martial artist with training in WTF Taekwondo, she frequently performs her own intense fight choreography
How their films are shot
Measured across 129 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ellen takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 83% of their frames are night, 70% low key — the look of the work Ellen takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 129 frames from Ellen Wong's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.